After a lot of rain and a short thunderstorm yesterday, we woke up to snow this morning.
April Weather
Category: Photography
Maple Treats
It was a crazy year for sap, but we ended up with a lot of wonderful treats!
The first is maple sap, which is good as a drink or added to chili. Then syrup, maple cream, candy and then maple sugar!
Raccoon
The weather has warmed up. Audrey noticed this raccoon hanging around our sap buckets this afternoon. She tried chasing it away by banging a spoon in a pan. It only ran up our maple tree and then took a nap. It is still enjoying its cozy napping space.
While it slept, we made sure all the lids were tight on the sap buckets and then put a heavy brick on each one. We do not want a nosy raccoon to ruin the sap we collected!
Rain Rain, Please Go Away!
After getting over a foot of snow last week, and then having it all melt in the last two days, along with rain–my dad’s rain gauge says 5.05 inches, we have a lot of water in the yard. On the side of the house, the water was halfway to Adrian’s knees. The air ducts under the house are full of water.
The girls spent most of the day wet vacuuming the ducts dry. Megan practiced keeping tally of all the times the vac was emptied (at least 240 times). Allan and Adrian worked on creating a ditch to divert some of the standing water to the back acre.
Hopefully, the rain will stop soon, we will get a breeze and everything will dry up quickly.
Playing with Betsy
We went to visit the neighbors’ animals this morning. Megan enjoyed playing with Betsy.
Ice Candles
The kids had these ice candles lit and sitting on our fort when we came home Saturday evening.
Snow Day
I told the kids that the next time it snowed, we would take the morning off and go sledding. It was 5 degrees at 8:00 this morning, but we still headed out to the park. We were happy that it warmed up quickly and we had a great morning.
Painting with Fire
My favorite picture from Snowglo.
And two others from the same presentation.
Colors
We enjoyed being able to participate in “SnowGlo” at Bonneyville park this year.
There were different activities to enjoy outside. One of my favorite was watching an artist twirl her lighted hula hoop.
SnowGlo
Last night we helped out at SnowGlo at the park. I was surprised how many people have never played with bubbles in winter. Their surprise at bubbles freezing and glowing was fun to watch.
We also had the chance to play. We painted with light sticks, roasted marshmallows, played with more bubbles, watched a hula hoop artist and enjoyed being outside.
Megan even made a new friend who was around two. When it was time for us to leave, he followed her wanting to play some more. He was very disappointed that she had to go home so she could warm up!
In order to make glowing bubbles, carefully break apart a few highlighter markers. Take the filters out and place in your favorite bubble solution. After they soak awhile, enjoy using a black light to see the bubbles glow as you blow them.